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The more difficult something becomes to play the more wanted/attractive the good once will be. It creates a skill-gap, instead of the feeling that 'everyone can play defence, you just spam'..
So, I have no problem with defence being hard to play, but it has to be on fair conditions.
As long as It's hard and fun,
And not,
hard and frustrating.
If offens can beat me with clean actions, I lift my hat, but if offens beat me with LTing and other unstable mechanics that can be used to create offensive advantage, thats no good.
Thats when defence becomes boring.
Thoose who play defence with poke spam and hits should never be the once that set the standard for playing D.
But if you are good at gap control and know when to push and when to hold, thoose should be the once having a good time playing D.
I would say good D set up conditions for good offens.
The best present or love defence can get, would be if LTing was a thing of the past.
That alone has been the worst enemy to playing D sence way back.
But I guess a thing like that wouldn't fit the marketing of the game..(the unique selling point).. Even though I think the promising from EA of no more LTing would get a lot of people in line for a purchase.
OK, so they've added some new things to Offense and somehow improved goalies. I'm playing defense. It looks pretty terrible for defense, and it will be even more difficult to play proper defense in 24. Why should I buy this game? Just to experience "pinned" effect?
Another year without any improvements for defense, because of goals goals goals. Offense currently have automatic source passes, automatic goals using close quarters, automatic OT, now they've got automatic dekes and automatic passes just by button click. What in the heck is that ?
- KidShowtime18672 years agoHero
Yes, this quote from the Operation Sports hands-on was not encouraging:
the point is this fatigue system creates new animation scenarios for the goalies and players, and should make it harder to play defense and easier to score goals.Just what we needed...
Source: https://www.operationsports.com/nhl-24-hands-on-preview-nhl-07s-link-to-the-present/